Re: Suppress 'duplicate key' at errorlog?

Thanks for all the comments/suggestions.

As I mentioned, this is a 3rd-party software so what I can do to it is none or limited at best. I will try to filter the errorlog. Another option is to set the log_min_messages and log_min_error_statement to log.

Maria

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From: Jerry Sievers [mailto:gsievers19(at)comcast(dot)net]
Sent: Monday, March 30, 2015 8:54 PM
To: Scott Whitney
Cc: Scott Ribe; Rossi, Maria; pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Suppress 'duplicate key' at errorlog?

Scott Whitney <scott(at)journyx(dot)com> writes:

> Am I the only one concerned about a product trying to duplicate a
> pkey? This is not usually the LAST step. It's early on in the logical process. You have to find and solve the underlying cause.

I've seen lazy developers use a try insert/update if fail to implement a poor man's upsert... a feature much sought after and only now being seriously developed for Postgres.

So... whether or not it's a bug is application dependent.

Yes I'd question a 3rd party about this if the product wasn't developed in house and/or fully open to code review to have them tell me "we did it that way on purpose" though rather than just declaring it a nuisance.

FWIW

> On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 6:17 PM, Scott Ribe <scott_ribe(at)elevated-dev(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On Mar 30, 2015, at 3:03 PM, Rossi, Maria <maria(dot)rossi(at)us(dot)pgds(dot)com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is there a way to suppress a ‘duplicate key’ msg from the errorlog? Due to a bug in a 3rd party application, this keeps on appearing and I am concerned that it
> will fill up the filesystem. I can delete the old errorlog, but if there is any other meaningful msgs out there, I would lose that too.
>
> No way to turn off that specific error message, but you could filter them out of the log, being careful of course not to filter any messages which might be more
> meaningful. You could also prevent the errors from being raised by using a trigger, but I don't like that idea very much at all.
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